Looking at Ur, who was kneeling on the ground and crying to the point of distraction, Ultear's emotions could not be cald for a long ti.
She subconsciously averted her gaze, only to et Ron's eyes nearby.
Ron looked at her with a slight smile, his voice echoing in Ultear's mind.
"After seeing those mories just now, do you still plan on hiding?"
"Those are Ur's true mories. I didn't fabricate them..."
Ultear's body trembled violently.
She knew they were real, of course; the resonance between souls could not be faked.
But... "So, I've misunderstood Mother all this ti. She... didn't abandon ."
Ultear let out a whisper like the buzzing of a mosquito.
"From when... did I start believing that Mother had abandoned ?"
She looked ahead, and the scene in the mory projection changed once again.
In the boundless snowy field, a young Ultear kept calling out 'Mother' as she ran tirelessly.
Carrying her longing for her mother, she ran incessantly toward ho.
Even though her hands and feet were frozen red by the ice and snow, nothing could stop her!
Seeing this scene, Ultear finally retrieved the reason for her hatred of her mother from her distant mories.
'That's right...'
She whispered to herself in her heart.
'Back then, I accidentally escaped from the Bureau of Magical Developnt and ran constantly to see Mother. It's just that when I finally returned ho, what I saw there... was Mother living with two disciples, her face full of happiness.'
She... had been abandoned!!!
She... had been replaced!!!
'I began to hate Mother. I returned to the Bureau of Magical Developnt as an experintal subject just to gain magic power... and take revenge... on Mother!'
Ur saw it too... At this mont, she realized that Ultear had once run all the way ho and had watched her from not far away along with Gray and Lyon... "So... Ultear... actually ca back?"
Ur murmured in a voice hoarse from crying.
"I missed her... I actually... actually didn't notice back then that she was right by my side."
"With that expression Ultear had, she must really hate ..."
"That's not the case, Ur."
Ron looked at the despondent and nearly broken Ur and spoke softly.
"Perhaps the Ultear of that ti hated you, but later on, what she wanted more... was to return to your side."
His gaze shifted to where Ultear was, and his voice sounded in her mind.
"Am I right, Ultear?"
Hearing this, Ultear gave Ron a harsh glare, turned her head, and spat lightly.
"Such a... big mouth!!!"
The mory projection did not stop because of their exchange.
In the next mont, the three of them were in an extrely vast library. A young Ultear was quickly flipping through a thick magic book.
Beside her stood an old man dressed in pitch-black armor and wearing a hideous two-horned helt, his body radiating powerful ripples of magic power.
"Hades..."
Ron felt the power coming from the man, and his eyes narrowed slightly.
"The Second Master, huh? He really is a terrifying opponent."
"When Zeref is resurrected once again, the Great Magic World will also be completed."
"The Great Magic World?"
"That is right. In the Great Magic World, all magic will beco free. There, all things will beco one, and everything will return to the source of the magical way."
"There even exists a type of magic there... that can retrieve lost happiness."
These words made young Ultear's breath hitch. She turned her head abruptly and stared intently at Hades.
"A magic that can... retrieve lost happiness?!"
"Hehehe... Arc of Ti, you should already be able to use it proficiently, right? The Arc of Ti in this world... is incomplete."
"Incomplete?"
"As a Lost Magic, the Arc of Ti is a magic that was forgotten long ago. However... in the Great Magic World, the Arc of Ti is perfect."
"It can turn its possessor into a true ti traveler, free to traverse through ti..."
A ti... traveler?!
Young Ultear's eyes instantly lit up with an unprecedented brilliance!
"A ti traveler... that way, I can start everything over again?! I can..."
"Return... to Mother's side?"
Young Ultear's final whisper drifted softly into Ur's ears, but it was like a thunderclap striking her heart.
"Ultear..."
Color returned to Ur's eyes, and tears instantly blurred her vision.
"Ultear... Mother also wanted you to co back to my side so much..."
"Mother... really wants to see you one more ti..."
Suddenly, Ur seed to rember sothing. She looked up at Ron, her gaze bursting with a compelling light.
"Ron, you know Ultear is alive, and there is even a mory projection of her here..."
"You know where Ultear is, don't you? Can you... let see her, even if it's just once..."
Ur looked at Ron with pleading and longing, afraid that he would utter words of refusal.
"Since you've put it that way, Ur, it wouldn't be right for to keep hiding things..."
"Since you both want to see each other, then..."
"Go ahead and et!!!"
A playful smile curled at the corner of Ron's mouth.
After watching such a sad projection for so long, it was ti for sothing happy and pleasant.
"Ultear, since you're afraid to take this step, I'll... give you another hand."
As Ron's voice disappeared from Ultear's mind, cracks began to appear in the mory projection space where she was.
Like a shattered mirror, the fragnts peeled away layer by layer, revealing the figure hidden within.
Ti stood still at this mont.
Ur was stunned.
She stared blankly at the sowhat unfamiliar girl before her. A throb from the depths of her soul caused her heart to beat violently.
Ultear was also stunned, staring at Ron with an unfriendly gaze.
One must know that within these mory projections, there were still so sinful things she had done... destroying redy's city, manipulating Jellal... she didn't want to appear before her mother with such an image.
"Alright, the remaining ti belongs to you two."
Ron directly ignored Ultear's look, a thick smile curling on his lips.
"Though there isn't much left, it should be enough."
"I'll take my leave first. Bye-bye~"
With that, he directly transford into dots of starlight and dissipated in this space.
"..."
Ultear's eyes widened, and it took a long ti for her to recover from Ron's series of actions.
'As expected, this man... is really a dog!!!'
'Honestly...'
The indignant Ultear didn't have ti to condemn Ron.
At this mont, a burning and emotionally intense gaze was fixed steadily upon her.
"Ul... tear..."
Ur's voice trembled beyond recognition, filled with cautious testing and overflowing longing.
Ultear's body stiffened abruptly, then quickly softened as she looked down and called out the na circling in her heart.
"Mo... Mother..."
"Ultear!!!"
Ur could no longer control herself. She lunged forward, using all her strength to hold her long-lost daughter tightly, tightly in her arms!
"Ultear..."
"Mother has always... always... missed you so much..."
Warm tears instantly soaked Ultear's shoulder.
A familiar warmth, a familiar scent... this was the embrace belonging to her mother that she had missed countless tis in her dreams... Ultear tremblingly raised her hands, slowly and tightly returning the embrace of this mother she thought had long since died, yet whom she had reunited with in this way.
"When that child was born, I felt a ray of light shine into my heart..."
The scene in the mory projection was the only ti Ur had ever spoken of Ultear in front of Gray and Lyon.
"Furthermore, I dread of that child's future, full of hope."
"I felt... extrely happy!!!"
"The infinite possibilities of the future radiating from that tiny body... the power of life... I couldn't stop crying at the ti..."
"That child is the proof of my life; she is my tears..."
"Ul... tear..."
"Ur's tears..."
"Ur's... happiest tears..."
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